(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new decision on residency conditions for foreigners has disconcerted Syrians residing in Turkey. The decision stipulates the cancellation of renewal of tourist residency for foreigners whose stay has exceeded one year. The decision states that foreigners who have...

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges which include bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu was charged in three different cases by the Israeli Attorney General. In the first case known as 1000, which...

Syrians, away from home for five years due to YPG/PKK terror group’s occupation, finally reached their homelands after Turkey’s successful military operations in the area, but felt upset after seeing their towns destructed by the terror group. Since 2016, Turkey has conducted three...

Abu Mahmoud thought he and his family had found relative safety from Syria's war, but then rocket fire pounded their camp in the night, killing 16 civilians. On Thursday morning, his brother's tent lay in cinders amid the neat rows of white dwellings of the Qah camp for the displaced near...

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg filed paperwork Thursday with the Federal Election Commission to run for U.S. president as a Democrat, the latest sign that the former New York City Mayor is joining the crowded nominating contest. The filing allows Bloomberg to raise money in a bid for the...

Rebel rocket fire on the government-controlled northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday killed seven civilians and wounded 30, state television said. "Seven civilians were killed and 30 more were wounded by a rocket attack carried out by terrorist groups," the official broadcaster said of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Thursday halted an advance by regime forces and allied Iranian militias into the eatsern countryside of Idlib province, killing 15 militants, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The regime army has been pressing to take a strategic territory located...

A Turkish court confirmed the convictions against former journalists from Turkey's oldest newspaper Thursday, despite their sentences being overturned by a higher court. The judgement against 12 ex-staffers from Cumhuriyet was described as "scandalous" by rights groups, and further evidence...

Some 73 migrants, many suffering from hypothermia and burns, were rescued by a Spanish charity ship late on Wednesday from a packed rubber dinghy that had been drifting off the Libyan coast for nearly 24 hours. It is the latest rescue by the Open Arms vessel in the Mediterranean, where more...

Turkey's defense ministry said Thursday that around 200 Syrians had returned to their homes after its offensive against Kurdish militants last month, with another 300 on the way. "Close to 200 of our Syrian brothers who had fled the (Kurdish militant) PKK/YPG... have voluntarily and safely...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Thursday praised the armed forces for taking "timely" action against "rioters" and suggested calm had been restored after days of unrest sparked by a hike in petrol prices. Authorities vowed to arrest leaders of the protests that started last Friday, in which...

Cyprus authorities have rescued 120 Syrian migrants from a boat adrift off the island's southeastern coast, police said on Thursday. They brought the Syrians ashore in the Cape Greco region after their vessel was sighted six nautical miles (11 km) off the east Mediterranean island. The...

A British-Iranian anthropologist held in Iran for three months has been released on bail, his wife told state news agency IRNA Wednesday. "Kameel Ahmady was released on Sunday evening on a 500 million (toman, $42,000) bail after three months of temporary detention," IRNA quoted Shafagh...

A French police officer was to appear in court Thursday on charges he hurled a paving stone at protesters during a "yellow vest" rally, the first member of the security forces to face trial after a wave of claims of police violence during the weekly protests. The court hearing comes just...

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin was set Thursday to task parliament with forming a government to avoid new elections, after Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz each failed to form a coalition. The country's political system has been in stasis since late 2018, with two elections...

Israeli forces arrested around 745 Palestinian children in the first 10 months of the current year, according to a non-governmental organization. In an annual report, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that the children arrested by Israel experienced numerous rights violations....

Turkey is discussing with Russia how to address the continued presence of Kurdish YPG militants in areas covered by an agreement between the two countries, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday. Ankara halted its incursion against the YPG last month after agreeing with Moscow for...

 Mohammed Manea has tended honey bees northeast of Sanaa for years, but despairs that the production of "Yemen's gold" is under threat as the war engulfing the country drags on. The conflict has blighted millions of lives and brought the economy to the brink of collapse. Cottage...

Two people were killed and 38 wounded early Thursday after Iraqi security forces fired tear gas canisters at protesters near two key bridges in Baghdad, security and medical sources said. The cause of death in both cases was tear gas canisters aimed directly at the head, the sources said....

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has rejected an invitation by South Korean President Moon Jae-in to a regional summit next week, Pyongyang's state media said Thursday, in a stark illustration of the dire relations between the neighbours. South Korea is due to host a summit with Southeast...